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LonelyStar

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Registered: 2007-12-09

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Making a script run as root

Hi,

I want to start a script as a normal user, and the script to do things, only root can do.

I changed the permission with chmod, they look like this now:
-rwsr-sr--  root ls  ... file-name

But when the script tries to acces a root-only file, I get a "permission denied".

Any adivce?
Thanks!
Nathan

Mr Green

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Re: Making a script run as root

you may be better off using sudo

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Xyne

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Re: Making a script run as root

I don't think that's possible without using sudo or su. The whole point of not having root privileges is to prevent exactly what you want to do. The only workaround that I can think of would be to create a daemon that's started with root privileges and that can accept some limited commands from a regular user, but I have no idea how you would actually do that.

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LonelyStar

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Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 123

Re: Making a script run as root

Well, sudo is a good Idea too. Thanks!